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InextriCâble
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About
The Server
InextriCâble is an interactive installation that re-enacts the perpetual struggle of humans against the hold of machines, inspired by the 1990s’ anxiety about digitising everything. At its heart, the Server is a devouring entity whose many cables tie nano-computers to cathode-ray screens.
Fed directly by the visitors’ behaviour through sensors, the Server generates an endless procedural music, while reshaping the (cyber)space as its algorithm sees fit.
InextriCâble uses recovered hardware and runs on free software.
How it works
An audio server writes lines of live code that compose a unique, instantaneous music according to who is in the room. All the visuals answer the sound: walls of light cables, old televisions, projections, DMX lights. Raspberry Pis run openFrameworks; the music is FoxDot. A Kinect scans the visitors and turns them into avatars inside the Server’s world.
It was shown at the Shadok in Strasbourg in September and October 2021, for Connexions and the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, with a live-coding workshop during the run.
Studies
Views out of a virtual window, made from open data and photogrammetry.
Lo-fi, glitchy research in the spirit of Rez. The sound is generated by the Server.
Images
The room, from the entrance. 
Cathode-ray screens tied to the Server. 
A terminal of the Server, among the plants. 
The console, and the room behind it. 
Setting up, shadowing the city. 
An old screen, audio-reactive. 
Where's my USB cable? 
Prototype of a custom decor element. 
Poster research for a 90s sci-fi B-movie. 
W32 Blaster, the living code: a B-movie poster draft. 
The installation's wall text.
Media
Live
- Connexion Inauguration SHADOK, Strasbourg Crash Server
Elsewhere
Credits
- Crash Server
- Scenography — Aurélie Verdun
- Video — Karst
- Shadok and the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival (Connexions, 2021)